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Kindle Public Domain Books – Top 50 

1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. #5.
2. Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know. #7.
3. The Art of War by Sun Tzu. Strategy. #8 in the Kindle Store.
4. Price and Prejudice by Jane Austen. #11.
5. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells. Sales Rank: 15. 
6. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. #16.
7. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. #18.
8. The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. #19.
9. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. #23.
10. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Sales Rank: 26.  
11. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. #27
12. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. #28.
13. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. #30.
14. The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Sir James Knowles. #33.
15. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Sales Rank: 35.
16. Dracula by Bram Stoker. #37.
17. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irvin. #38.
18. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne. Sales Rank: 41. 
19. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. #42.
20. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. #46.
21. Shepp’s Photographs of the World by Daniel B. Shepp, James W. Shepp. Sales Rank: 47.
22. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. #48.
23. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.  #49.
24. White Fang by Jack London. Sales Rank: 50.
25. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. #62.
26. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Sales Rank: 63.
27. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Sales Rank: 67.
28. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. Sales Rank: 68. 
29. The Swiss Family Robinson or Adventures in a Desert Island by Jonathan David Wyss. Sales Rank: 75. 
30. The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting. Sales Rank: 81.
31. The Man who was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton. Sales Rank: 82.
32. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. Sales Rank: 84.
33. The Life and Most Suprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Sales Rank: 90.
34. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Sales Rank: 106.
35. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. #109.
36. History of Egypt, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria – Volume 3 of 12 by Gaston Maspero. Sales Rank: 118.
37. Persuasion by Jane Austen. Sales Rank: 129.
38. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. #136.
39. 365 Foreign Dishes. Sales Rank: 137. Very short, hard recipes.
40. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. #138.
41. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. #139.
42. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. #143.
43. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift. #144.
44. The World’s Greatest Books Volume 1.  #145.
45. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher.  #152 in the Kindle Store.
46. The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas. Sales Rank: 164.
47. Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau. Sales Rank: 165.
48. Edgar Allen Poe’s Complete Poetical Works. #166. 
49. The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling. #167. 
50. The Arabian Nights Entertainments. Sales Rank: 174.

There seems to be this trend of not including the most popular work of an author i.e. The Republic, Call of the Wild, War of the Worlds, etc. are all missing.

51 through 100 of the most popular kindle public domain books after the break …

Kindle Public Domain Books – 51 through 100

1. The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells. #184.
2. The Iliad by Homer. #186.
3. Jack and Jill and Old Dame Gill. Sales Rank: 189.
4. The Odyssey by Homer. #190.
5. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. #192.
6. The World’s Greatest Books Volume 2. #197.
7. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. #204.
8. The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne. #209. 
9. Skyrider by B. M. Bower. Sales Rank: 211.
10. Lady Susan by Jane Austen. Sales Rank: 219.
11. The Game by Jack London. #233.
12. The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells. #239.
13. Short Stories Old and New. #242.
14. Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading. Sales Rank: 249.
15. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. #256.
16. The World’s Greatest Books Volume 3. #257.
17. Chinese Literature - Confucius, Mencius, Shi-King, Han. Sales Rank: 261.
18. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. #265.
19. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17. Sales Rank: 268. 
20. The Red Romance Book. Sales Rank: 273.  
21. The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne. Sales rank: 284.
22. Divine Comedy, Cary’s Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri. #288.
23. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. #290.
24. The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain. #294.
25. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Sales Rank: 301.
26. The Fugitive by Rabindranath Tagore. Sales Rank: 302.
27. Poems by Walt Whitman. #306.
28. My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse. #307
29. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle. #316. 
30. The Dogs Dinner Party. Sales Rank: 317. 
31. The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain. Sales Rank: 319.
32. The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells. #320. 
33. The Gilpins and their Fortunes – A Story of Early Days in Australia by William Henry Giles. Sales Rank: 328. 
34. Phrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for Study. Sales Rank: 333.
35. The Martyr of the Catacombs - A Tale of Ancient Rome. Sales Rank: 340. 
36. The World’s Greatest Books – Volume 6. #341.
37. Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle. Sales Rank: 345.
38. Northanger Abby by Jane Austen. #350.
39. The Mountains of California by John Muir. #351.
40. Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald. #365.
41. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. #371.
42. Divine Comedy, Cary’s Translation, Paradise by Dante Alighieri. #383.
43. Beauty and the Beast by Marie Le Prince de Beaumont. #384.
44. The Botanical Magazine Vol. 1 by William Curtis. Sales Rank: 391. No Photographs.
45. English Poets of the Eighteenth Century. Sales Rank: 393.
46. The Civilization of China by Herbert Allen Giles. Sales Rank: 396.
47. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. #397.
48. The Eleven Comedies – Volume 1 by Aristophanes. Sales Rank: 398.
49. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. #414.
50. Divine Comedy, Cary’s Translation, Purgatory by Dante. #435.

Kindle Public Domain Books – 101 through 292 

1. Myths and Legends of Our Own Land – Volume 1. Charles Skinner. Sales Rank: 444.
2. As You Like It by William Shakespeare. #458.
3. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells. #462.
4. The Sea Wolf by Jack London. #475.
5. Lincoln Letters by Abraham Lincoln. #480.
6. The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll. #491.
7. The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. #493
8. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. #518. 
9. The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell. #531.
10. The World’s Greatest Books – Volume 5. #536.
11. The World’s Greatest Books – Volume 7. #539.
12. The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. MacCulloch. #549.
13. Aesop’s Fables. #559.
14. Poems 1817 by W. B. Keats. #578.
15. The Celtic Twilight by W. B. Yeats. #579.
16. Stickeen by John Muir. #590.
17. The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. #592.
18. Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard. #600.
19. Laws by Plato. #612.
20. White Fang by Jack London. #613.
21. The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. #626.
22. Ethics by Aristotle. #638.
23. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. #656.
24. Democracy in America – Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville. #658.
25. Library of the World’s Best Mystery and Detective Stories. #660.
26. The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Ketcham. #662.
27. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter. #665.
28. The World’s Greatest Books – Volume 9. #670.
29. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. #672.
30. True Irish Ghost Stories by St. John D. Seymour. #684.
31. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster. #694.
32. South Sea Tales by Jack London. #696.
33. Democracy in America – Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville. #702.
34. The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates by Xenophon. #707.
35. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. #711
36. Middlemarch by George Eliot. #721.
37. King Richard III by William Shakespeare. #734.
38. Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf. #743.
39. Children of the Frost by Jack London. #762.
40. An Englishman’s Travels in America by John Benwell. #782.
41. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. #792.
42. The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. #863.
43. Beyond the City by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. #864.
44. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth – Volume 2. #865.
45. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. #871.
46. The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt. #876.
47. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens. #879.
48. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx. #886.
49. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. #906.
50. The Adventures of Sally by P. G. Wodehouse. #908.
51. The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London. #914.
52. The Oregon Trail by Franics Parkman. #915.
53. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss. #918.
54. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs. #921.
55. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth – Volume 1. #926.
56. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. #948.
57. Piccadilly Jim by P. G. Wodehouse. #954.
58. Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven by Mark Twain. #957.
59. Travels in Alaska by John Muir. #958.
60. Lost Face by Jack London. #975.
61. Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch by Edward S Ellis. #986.
62. Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit. #999.
63. The Door in the Wall and Other Stories by H. G. Wells. #1,005.
64. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It’s the HTML edition. #1,009.
65. Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker. #1,019.
66. The Einstein Theory of Relativity by H. A. Lorentz. #1,020.
67. The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant. #1,043.
68. Smoke Bellew by Jack London. #1,056.
69. Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Martin and Thomas Dyer. #1,062.
70. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents by H. G. Wells. #1,087.
71. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant. #1,095.
72. Celtic Tales, Told to the Children by Louey Chisholm. #1,105.
73. The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. #1,108.
74. The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons by Henry Olcott. #1,111.
75. The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare. #1,113.
76. The Grand Canyon of the Colorado by John Muir. #1,114.
77. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. #1,117.
78. The Refugees by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. #1,134.
79. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes. #1,135.
80. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence. #1,136.
81. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. #1,140.
82. The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson. #1,158.
83. Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake. #1,179.
84. The People of the Abyss by Jack London. #1,181.
85. The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut by Mark Twain. #1,194.
86. Typhoon by Joseph Conrad. #1,198.
87. Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill. #1,199.
88. The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter. #1,219.
89. Household Tales by Brothers Grimm. #1,221.
90. Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton. #1,231.
91. Medieval People by Eileen Edna Power. #1,234.
92. Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. Warner. #1,252.
93. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain. #1,257.
94. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. #1,274.
95. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James. #1,308.
96. Precaution by James Fenimore Cooper. #1,310.
97. The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson. #1312.
98. At Whispering Pine Lodge by Lawrence J. Leslie. #1,315.
99. The Great Boer War by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. #1,321.
100. The Son of the Wolf by Jack London. #1,326.
101. Purple Springs by Nellie L. McClung. #1,327.
102. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. #1,341.
103. The Grey Fairy Book. #1,349.
104. Folklore and Legends – Scotland. #1,386.
105. The Iron Heel by Jack London. #1,371.
106. Crito by Plato. #1,402.
107. Aristotle on the Art of Poetry. #1,418.
108. The Vanishing Man by R. Austin Freeman. #1,454.
109. English Fairy Tales. #1,464.
110. Welsh Fairy Tales and Other Stories. #1,468.
111. Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights by E. Dixon. #1,526.
112. Fair Em by William Shakespeare (perhaps). #1,547.
113. The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Jules Verne. #1,576.
114. The Strength of the Strong by Jack London. #1,608.
115. The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales by Alfred Gatty. #1,625.
116. American Institutions and their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville. #1,629.
117. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad. #1,636.
118. Liverpool Gals by Roger McGuinn. #1,683.
119. Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll. #1,686.
120. The Evil Guest by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. #1,710.
121. What is Coming? by H. G. Wells. #1,713.
122. The Green Flag by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. #1,730.
123. The Doings of Raffles Haw by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. #1,737.
124. The Bravo by James Fenimore Cooper. #1,770.
125. The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. #1,778.
126. Twelve Gates to the City by Roger McGuinn. #1,785.
127. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary – Part 2 by M. R. James. #1,790.
128. How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett. #1,793.
129. The Rescue by Joseph Conrad. #1,803.
130. The Lock and Key Library – Classic Mystery and Detective Stories. #1,850.
131. Little Sarah. #1,856.
132. The Crater by James Fenimore Cooper. #1,901.
133. A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality among Mankind by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. #1,903.
134. The Little Lady of the Big House by Jack London. #1,948.
135. Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker. #1,955.
136. The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin. #1,968.
137. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood. #2,004.
138. She by H. Rider Haggard. #2,019.
139. Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory. #2,024.
140. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy. #2,071.
141. Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. #2,082.
142. The Green Mouse by Robert W. Chambers. #2,083.
143. A Man of Means by P. G. Wodehouse. #2,096.
144. The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. #2,098.
145. Childhood by Leo Tolstoy. #2,112.
146. What Men Live By and Other Tales by Leo Tolstoy. #2,113.
147. The Merry Devil by William Shakespeare (perhaps). #2,164.
148. Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. #2,195.
149. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. #2,228.
150. Probable Sons by Amy LeFeuvre. #2,235.
151. A Dreamer’s Tales by Lord Dunsany. #2,240.
152. The Trojan Women of Euripides by Euripides. #2,255.
153. Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. #2,259.
154. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad. #2,325.
155. The Double Traitor by E. Philips Oppenheim. #2,328.
156. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant – Volume 2 by Ulysses S. Grant. #2,335.
157. Hippolytus/The Bacchae by Euripides. #2,352.
158. The American Claimant by Mark Twain. #2,369.
159. The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad. #2,384.
160. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. #2,396.
161. The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne. #2,401.
162. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. #2,405.
163. The Black Dwarf by Sir Walter Scott. #2,420.
164. Indian Fairy Tales. #2,503.
165. Chance by Joseph Conrad. #2,527.
166. The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells. #2,528.
167. In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells. #2,580.
168. The Haunted House – A True Ghost Story by Walter Hubbell. #2,581.
169. An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton. #2,611.
170. Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce. #2,614.
171. Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. #2,620.
172. Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children by Charles Kingsley. #2,621.
173. The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter. #2,653.
174. The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne. #2,689.
175. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. #2,779.
176. The Eleven Comedies by Aristophanes. #2,799.
177. A Life of General Robert E. Lee by John Cooke. #2,812.
178. The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope. #2,825.
179. Abraham Lincoln by James Russell Lowell. #2,847.
180. Extracts from Adam’s Diary by Mark Twain. #2,884.
181. Hunted Down: The detective stories of Charles Dickens. #2,885.
182. Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy. #2,902.
183. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim. #2,904.
184. The House of Atreus by Aeschylus. #2,914.
185. Varney the Vampire OR The Feast of Blood by Thomas Prest. #2,962.
186. The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde. #3,019.
187. A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott. #3,060.
188. The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain by Charles Dickens. #3,073.
189. The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany. #3,079.
190. Victory by Joseph Conrad. #3,228.
191. Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad. #3,280.
192. Diary of  Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith. #3,312.
193. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime by Oscar Wilde. #3,318.
194. As a Man Thinketh by James Allen is rated 4.5 stars on 258 reviews.
195. Walking by Henry David Thoreau.

Other Notable Public Domain Books

1. The Darwinian Hypothesis by Thomas Huxley. #10,175.
2. More William by Richmal Crompton. #16,053.
3. Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin. #17,449.

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